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Originally Posted by Targan
I wasn't going to respond to dragoon500ly's characterisation of Islam but seeing as others are doing so I suppose I'd may as well.
There are fundamentalists in most religions, as well as very reasonable folk. I'm not personally religious but I don't begrudge others having faith. I do however get really p*ssed off at extremist and violent religious beliefs. And in my experience there are probably just as many Christian nutjobs as Muslim. Those freaks in the US that picket the funerals of fallen soldiers and scream on about America deserving to suffer for its sins are a great example.
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As far as the only terrorist attack I ever escaped was performed by Christian, I can only agree. In 1988, over France, members a fundamentalist christian group launched a number of attacks in movie theaters showing "The last temptation of Christ". The first attack was made in a theater on St Michel square (Paris) and resulted in 14 people burnt to various degrees (I was supposed to be there and changed my mind while waiting in line, I was lucky that day). Another attack made one dead.
The most outrageous about this is that five people involved in the first attack were only condemned very lightly : jail with sursis (which means that they never ever got in jail) and a 70000$ fine (for all five). That fundamentalist group (AGRIF) is still in existence today. Yes I know justice is blind.
